Liwia

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Liwia
Temporal range: Early Cambrian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Order: Nektaspida
Family: Liwiidae
Genus: Liwia
Dzik and Lendzion, 1988
Species

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Liwia is a genus of nektaspid, a soft-bodied stem-group chelicerate.[1] It includes the following species:

  • Liwia plana Lendzion, 1975
  • Liwia convexa Lendzion 1975

References

  1. ^ Budd, G. E. (1999). "A nektaspid arthropod from the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet fauna, with a description of retrodeformation based on functional morphology". Palaeontology. 42: 99. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00064.